CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-6126

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A race condition in the Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol in Windows allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a crafted application.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation or system disruption, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update operating systems to the latest versions that include security patches addressing this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Race condition in the Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted application, aka "Windows PGM UAF Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS